There was the Benghazi Scandal, the IRS Scandal, and the
little covered but equally alarming Secretary Sebelius scandal.
Then we learned that the Justice Department had secretly
obtained two months worth of phone call records for more than 100 Associated
Press reporters. This is the largest violation of the First Amendment in modern
times and so we now have four scandals in the Obama Administration.
The White House wants Americans to believe the four
scandals are all, in one way or another, the rogue acts of insignificant
subordinates.
They want us to believe that a few misguided but
well-meaning IRS agents in regional offices took the initiative to persecute
and harass conservatives in an election year.
They want us to believe that repeated requests for more
security at the Benghazi compound were ignored by fourth-tier bureaucrats at
the State Department, never making it to the Department’s leadership. That the
talking points were altered by unknown analysts at the CIA, rather than senior
administration officials as evidence suggests. That the explosive allegations
of a senior diplomat are really just the ramblings of a disgruntled
employee. They want us to believe that
the White House was completely unaware that the Department of Justice secretly
grabbed two months of phone records from Associated Press reporters who cover
the administration, in an effort to identify their sources.
And no doubt we will soon discover that Health and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s shakedown of insurance companies for
money which Congress refused to appropriate was really the initiative of some
unfortunate functionary deep in the bowels of the Department.
But in truth, these scandals are not the random acts of a
few bureaucrats who got out of hand.
These scandals are in fact the natural manifestations of
Obamaism.
Unaccountable power, untethered from law or the
Constitution, and employed for political gain is standard operating procedure
in an administration which seeks to make government bigger and bigger. It is
the Chicago machine transplanted to the federal government.
And they continue without shame, lying about what they’ve
done, then lying about lying, and finally lying about the people who are
telling the truth until everyone forgets what they lied about in the first
place.
Is this the new “normal” for American politics? Is this the new “normal” for American
behavior? It is a sad day when the
government, we as taxpayers pay for, can lie to us without blinking an eye.
